Neon-Crepth's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[.-[Fantasy Island]-.]

you've improved!

from the first three submissions i discovered you with, you've improved a lot! i the drums, being the loudest thing in the song should have been varied more. and the melody was really repetitive. it did however get my head bobbin'
4/5.
-crepth

Mr-Carrothead responds:

thanks dude :D
nice hearin' from ya again

[All The Things You Said [192k]]

hey, me again

everything is pretty much great. the vocals are a little better than what i remember it used to be. try recording it in a bathroom, that might help. the vocals just dont match the rest of the song. its like the instruments are close and their sound bounces off a distant wall when the vocals are in a tight confined space which the instruments are sitting on top of. ...better though. i wouldn't bother to redo this again, just try making the vocals better in yur other songs.

5/5

jnry3 responds:

Hey thanks for your review! I really needed that!

Hmm... a bathroom? Maybe a reverb effect will simulate that.

I'm trying to interpret 4th sentence of your review... and I think the "distant wall" is the delay effect for the synth guitars. I'll keep that in mind.

Hehe... too late. I'm redoing the vocal tracks on the song after getting a new mic.

Again, many, many thanks for your review! ^_^

[All The Things You Said]

cool man!

this had nice drums, Awesome!- bass line, and well mastered guitar. but the only thing i had a problem with was the singing. i don't know if it was the voice itself or the over pronunciation, but whichever one it was it wasn't as good as it could have sounded (reverb and filtering-wise)

4/5. nice job man. check out my songs if you have the time! thnx

-crepth

jnry3 responds:

Hmm... maybe it's just the mastering. I did some remastering, by the way. Check if the problem is still there.

I'll pass by your site soon. Thanks for the review! ^_^

Remastered 192kbps version here: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/liste n/106651

[Jules]

cool!

nice 8bit man. all it needs is some of those sweet 8bit percussions! (also, next time don't go as crazy with the panning. just my opinion though...)
4/5 'cause of the lack of percussion.

-crepth

the-grimlord responds:

Well I don't really get what you are trying to say lol
Anyways, I did this song on my childhood keyboards, like I've said. It doesn't have many effects. Actually, it lacks of effects very much lol Thanx in any case. I'll try to make better songies in the future. :)

[~'{Winter Aura}'~]

hey man long time no speak...

i dont know if we've talked since i switched accounts but im mawkeetus from bmc-audio. you've come a long way from what i can recall, FRONT PAGE! this is nicely mastered and is pretty catchy. i just think it could have used a little bass.

nice job. 5/5 'n 8/10. check out my songs on this account if u want.

-crepth

Kid2Will responds:

yeah dude its been a while, and this is the 2nd time! that ive been on the front page, i dunno how it works tho. randomly chosen or stats... NE way thanks for the review!

[[ not another love song ]]

classic style

this has a very nice melody and style of picking. good recording quality and mastering. i think you should just work on better clarity of your singing as well as better sustained notes, thats really all that i think could be improved here :]

nice song from you yet again, 5/5. keep them coming.

-crepth

Kingbastard responds:

i actually think the clarity of the vocals on this track iare better than any I've done prevoiusly.
you want sustained notes, try listening to my other acoustic stuff:)

[Facing Defeat]

nice job man...

originality-7- i felt that the 1-3-5 riff is still a little boring to my preference. it does however work well in the song. maybe stay away from piano a bit...its to basic if you know what im getting at.

diversity-7- it was the same chord progression the whole way through (regardless if its the one i hate or not) just with different short melodies attached to the sides. the piano got tiresome and monopolized the the listeners attention for the duration of the song.*in nerdy voice* ha.

clarity-9- everything was pretty well mastered here. i enjoyed the quiet strings in the bg. the only thing i had a problem with was the kick, too fuzzy. speaking of the drums...did you have a stutter beat in there? it sounded cool. one last comment about the clarity, it would have sounded cool if you switched up the pan. the pan being close and far, not left and right. it would have helped make the audio more interesting to listen to.

effort-10- i can tell you put a lot of work mastering into this. and all of the tiny details in the bg.

overall-8- (usually i just take the mean of the scores for the overall rating)

4/5 and 8/10...(4/5 only because of it was just your typical song style, nothing really jumped out at me and made me say, "WOWIE ZOWIE!!! HOLY COW!" or something along those lines.^^)

-crepth

x-Exodus-X responds:

hmm, the same chord progression? i dont know exactly how to switch the chord progression without making a really ugly transition. i did variate the strings though, playing diffrent versions of the progression, but i guess that wasn't enough for you haha jk

im sorry if you didnt like the piano. i am personally a big fan of it, and like i told you in person, i wanted it to be the main instrument of the song. i dunno,is it that you didnt like the sound of it itself or is it that you didn't like the reusing of it?

cus if its the latter, i recomend you do make some changes to Wrong Child, bucko! lol, *also in nerd voice* rofl.

i personally dont like panning, but i only know how to make it pan left and right. how do you make it pan close and far? do you mean like turning the filter cut off low so it sounds distant and faded? i dont categorize that as clarity, though.

as for the 4/5, 8/10, and non Wowie Zowie-age, im sorry that you didnt enjoy the song as much as i did. i think this is fivin' material, but thats just my opinion of my opinion, lolol. i am glad that you gave me a 10 for effort though :D :D :D

so, which is your favorite song out of mine? i hope i didnt shoot you down too much lol, oh and btw, get on AIM

[Rays of Love]

never heard anything like this i think...

did you use a Yamaha keyboard for this. i have the same phone ring sound on mine. speaking of which i think the ring went on a little too long. i dont expect this song to go far for one reason...the bass was to blotchy. i had a song with a not so well mastered bass and the dl's aren't looking good.(i've learned my lesson) if that were better and the SFX were toned down at parts to reduce muddiness, i could see this going very far. the guitar was okay i think but it was the same as the rest as the song....it needed more spice. like if theres going to be a solo i felt it should stand out to the rest of the song.

4/5 8/10 from me. i can see you have a lot of experience under your belt so im not going to soften up the criticism for ya hereas if you were some noobie. great song besides those few minor things i was saying. please keep em coming!

-crepth

mechanoid-9 responds:

No, that sound is actually a standard 3XOsc preset in Fl. About the bass... I dunno I kinda like it, it's like this because I tried using an effect which I haven't used before. The guitar's the same possibly because of my lazyness^^ This song was almost finished quite a long ago, I only did some shortening and structural tweaking yesterday. Guess I didn't put enough effort into it.
Thanks a lot for the advice. Bsides it seems you forgot to click the 4 coz it's still at zero...

Here I swear that my next song is going to be Reason-made.

["Full Moon in September"]

not bad really.

pretty simple synths...i would suggest looking into more interesting synths for future projects.(i've been looking into some new ones myself).
kinda repetitive, actually really repetitive...so yeah. i know it was supposed to be dance and all but if that was the intended style i think it was an attempt that fell a little short; needed more kick and beat to it.
pretty good clarity, i can tell you put a lot of time into it. i liked the slight delay you put on the leading synth, or perhaps it was just reverb.~
nice effort. i believe w/ some more noticeable melodies, this song could go far. so nice job on this man.

check out my songs if you'd like. I've got a new one pretty soon; hopefully my best^^ 5/5 and 9/10 from me. ill look at your page periodically for new ones. good job.

-crepth

XayberOptix responds:

I agree with you. It's very basic and that was why I never released it. hehe. It was really an experimental piece created while I was learning how to use Fruity Loops (which I stopped using once I found out about Reason 2.5). Thanks for the review.

[Destruction of a Dream]

cool song exodus

i liked the beginning choir. cool piano like the other guy said. i think you should have added a little bit of reverb on some stuff like the drums and cymbals. i didn't like the:

-synth pitch build up (seemed off key)
-choir pitch swing (didn't really fit the feeling of the song at that point)
-slayer solo (same reason as the above one)
-that one general melody (1 3 5 3 etc. i think you over use that a little bit too much)

on the other hand, great job mastering, i know it didn't show in this version but in the better one it did. lol, i knew you'd be on my back about that one... most of the instruments were good.

i was only pointing out the bad points there, over all, cool remix...

-Crepth

x-Exodus-X responds:

"on the other hand, great job mastering, i know it didn't show in this version but in the better one it did. lol, i knew you'd be on my back about that one..."

i dont really get what you mean by that.

the synth pitch thing, was on pitch. it was G, the song was in G minor.the choir pitch and guitar were meant to mix the song up, i thought that the song had alot of diffrent elements and those two mixed in with the whole diversity of instruments. maybe i went too far...? i also changed up the melody tempos and pitches alot in the melody, i guess it wasnnt enough for u. that melody sort of acted as the chorus of the song, so to say. im glad you liked it though. thanks for the review.